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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search | ||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search. | ||
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||
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||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search | ||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search. | ||
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search | ||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search. | ||
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||
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File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover | ||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover. | ||
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | ||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | ||
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||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. | ||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. | ||
File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1970: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from [[AESOP]] during the Second World War. | |||
||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic. | ||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
1970: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.
1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.